DUBAI: Bahraini security forces have arrested four people suspected of attacking a police checkpoint with petrol bombs south of Manama at the weekend, the interior ministry said.
“Four of the terrorists who attacked police checkpoint on Sunday evening with petrol bombs have been arrested,” the ministry said late Monday.
It said the attack took place in the district of Jari Al Sheikh, south of the capital, adding the identity of others suspected of being involved was being probed.
The alleged attack came amid frequent clashes between security forces and protesters in villages inhabited by the Shia majority of the kingdom ruled by the Al Khalifa dynasty.
Saudi beheaded for killing woman
RIYADH: Saudi authorities beheaded by the sword yesterday a national convicted of murdering a woman after he tried to rape her, the Interior Ministry said.
Hussam Al Sharari was found guilty of slitting the throat of the woman who resisted his attempts to rape her after he sneaked into her house, it said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. He was executed in the city of Sakakah, in the northern Jawf region. His beheading brings to 37 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the year.
Sudanese rebels thwart army bid
KHARTOUM: Sudanese rebels yesterday said they had repulsed an army attempt to retake an area they seized 10 days ago during a surprise coordinated strike into a previously peaceful region.
But the army said it had not approached rebel-held Abu Kershola village but fought with insurgents elsewhere. Rebels of the Sudan Revolutionary Front coalition took Abu Kershola on April 27 during attacks on several nearby areas, including Umm Rawaba, the second-largest town in North Kordofan state.
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